Since July 2020, families of 96,000 children eligible for free school meals have received fortnightly payments of £27 per child during school holidays. These payments were made to parents to make up for the lack of free school meals while the schools were closed. The Department says it can't fund the payments anymore. Leaving the announcement to the last minute - mere days before the Easter break - will cause serious stress for parents. During a cost of living crisis, it is indefensible.

The more support we have the more we tell the businesses that we value our retail workers and their safety and general health without pushing them so hard they become ill.

Retail workers have been heroes of the pandemic, ensuring the nation can remain fed. However, despite this essential role, throughout the Coronavirus crisis, retail workers have been spat at, threatened with infection of Coronavirus and physically assaulted. Last year, 90% of retail workers were abused simply as a result of going to work. Following Usdaw’s campaign in Scotland, the Scottish parliament passed the Protection of Workers Act earlier this year. So from 24 August 2021, Scottish retail workers have specific protection from abuse, threats and violence. Usdaw wants all retail workers right across the UK to benefit from the same legal protection as their colleagues in Scotland. Please sign our petition to show your support

Key workers are getting this country through the pandemic. They headed out to work when the rest of the country stayed at home – putting themselves and their families at risk. It’s time to end the low pay and insecure work that leave many of these workers struggling, and make sure every key worker gets a payrise. The coronavirus crisis demonstrated how much we all owe to all our key workers - healthcare staff, care workers, retail and delivery workers, public transport workers, teachers and support staff, cleaners, energy workers and so many others. But the fact is, many of these workers - an estimated two million - are on the national minimum wage. And many are in insecure work, employed on zero hours contracts with poor terms and conditions. The government can raise the minimum wage. It can use its powers to ban zero hours contracts. And it directly sets the wages of four million key workers in the public sector. It’s time for ministers to act – and give all our key workers the payrise they have earned. Ministers turned up to clap for key workers every Thursday during the lockdown. Now is the time for them to show their support again.

We have had an HR1 issued and do not have any trained work representatives

At this time of national emergency, it is vital that as a community, we stick together and help each other. Global Foods Ltd, Cardiff, have decided to sack all workers with less than 24 months employment. This is wrong and we are calling on Global Foods Ltd, Cardiff, to furlough these workers immediately

Refuse workers are working three or four to a cab, with no social distancing measures, a lack of hand cleaner & no additional protective equipment, putting themselves and the public at risk of Coronavirus. Additionally staff with serious conditions, such as cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), have been told they will only get statutory sick pay whilst self-isolating. Please sign this petition and support your refuse workers.

Having a local fire station, where volunteers respond instantly to the siren when there is a fire in the town or surroundings will save lives and property.

To bring workers out of in work poverty